So, for example, for the big bangs, I have a list of all the stories I intend to read from that list. I looked at them all and included slash and gen, but no het, and then I rated them on a scale of 1 to 5. I'm going to read the 5's first. When I'm doing reading that story, I erase it from the list. Anal, right? : D
As for any story I happen to read (which is a lot of SGA at the moment, on my ebook reader), I can review those too, even if they're not on the list. No sense in being that anal. : D
As to the format of each review, as a reader and a writer, what I want to keep track of is not whether I'd recommend a particular story to all my friends, but more, how the story struck me and what I got from it. More a reading diary (which sounds really dusty put that way), than a rec list. So I'll be writing about the lines I liked, what concepts I liked, what elements, what I didn't like, what didn't work. Etc.
More important is how to track what I've read, and keeping track of, like you say, the particularities of each story.
If I tag a story in my LJ with "review" "fandom" "pairing" "any warnings" and so on, that's fine, but after 900 entries (or so Amothea tells me) I can't go back unless you know exactly what date I'm looking for.
So I also tag my reviews in Delicious. That is, I'm bookmarking my own LJ entry in my Delicious page. In Delicious, I can look up by "review" AND "fandom", so I can narrow my search for a review/entry in a particular fandom.
So here's a link to my Delicious. I enter "review" and see what comes up.
Well, guess what, I not only get my reviews, I get a couple of other peoples as well. It might be good for me to add "lovesrain44" to each entry that is for my LJ, and then when I enter "review" and "lovesrain44" and search on both of those, I get only my reviews.
It's a good way to keep track, because Delicious is endless. And boundless. : D
Is that the kind of idea you were thinking of? Or did you have another way to keep track? I mean, I love charts and stuff, but the internet moves so fast, it would be more work to keep that up.
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So, for example, for the big bangs, I have a list of all the stories I intend to read from that list. I looked at them all and included slash and gen, but no het, and then I rated them on a scale of 1 to 5. I'm going to read the 5's first. When I'm doing reading that story, I erase it from the list. Anal, right? : D
As for any story I happen to read (which is a lot of SGA at the moment, on my ebook reader), I can review those too, even if they're not on the list. No sense in being that anal. : D
As to the format of each review, as a reader and a writer, what I want to keep track of is not whether I'd recommend a particular story to all my friends, but more, how the story struck me and what I got from it. More a reading diary (which sounds really dusty put that way), than a rec list. So I'll be writing about the lines I liked, what concepts I liked, what elements, what I didn't like, what didn't work. Etc.
More important is how to track what I've read, and keeping track of, like you say, the particularities of each story.
I use Delicious which is http://www.delicious.com, as an add on to tagging story reviews in LJ.
If I tag a story in my LJ with "review" "fandom" "pairing" "any warnings" and so on, that's fine, but after 900 entries (or so Amothea tells me) I can't go back unless you know exactly what date I'm looking for.
So I also tag my reviews in Delicious. That is, I'm bookmarking my own LJ entry in my Delicious page. In Delicious, I can look up by "review" AND "fandom", so I can narrow my search for a review/entry in a particular fandom.
So here's a link to my Delicious. I enter "review" and see what comes up.
http://www.delicious.com/rain_girl/review
Well, guess what, I not only get my reviews, I get a couple of other peoples as well. It might be good for me to add "lovesrain44" to each entry that is for my LJ, and then when I enter "review" and "lovesrain44" and search on both of those, I get only my reviews.
It's a good way to keep track, because Delicious is endless. And boundless. : D
Is that the kind of idea you were thinking of? Or did you have another way to keep track? I mean, I love charts and stuff, but the internet moves so fast, it would be more work to keep that up.